John Keller

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Drinking from the fire hose
Whohttps://john.paris
WhereParis, France

When researching for my Fn/Globe essay, I found that Centre Pompidou’s site has a bunch of cool photos of Richard Sapper’s IBM PC Convertible models and prototypes. Really fun to see a computer evolve this way.

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/recherche/oeuvres?terms=convertible

Figure it's been long enough for globaltalk folk to have the actual image exclusively. Here, bitmap for joy.

http://www.danamania.com/tmp/Globaltalk-2026.gif

For Globaltalk, in Marchintosh 2026.

18.5 hours, 1 bit, black and white only.

(Original .pict on a bunch of your globaltalk servers)

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

Maybe you can’t buy everything local. What one thing can you start buying local? Can you switch from Starbucks to the local coffee shop? Can you switch from Petco to the local pet feed store? Can you switch from Dominoes to a local pizza place?

Maybe you can’t completely de-Google or de-Apple or de-Amazon your life. Can you switch one thing? Can you use DuckDuckGo? Move your passwords to Bitwarden? Open a Fastmail account?

I can’t remember where I saw it, but I feel like today is a good time to revisit the concept of “Vegan + bacon”.

People often avoid making small positive changes because they get caught up in trying to go all the way. For example, “I could never go vegan. I love bacon too much”.

So then go vegan plus bacon. Or vegetarian plus bacon. Or just switch to oat milk and eat more vegetables. Whatever small change you can make is good

Forty-five years ago today, Clive Sinclair introduced the ZX81. It wasn’t the first computer that I’d used, but it was the first that I could call my own.

I had neither the skill nor the coordination to build the kit, but thankfully my dad had plenty of both. He even modified the RF modulator so that I could use a black-and-white monitor that I’d bought at a swap meet.

Thanks for this computer, Sir Clive. And for the everything else, Dad.

#Sinclair #ZX81 #SinclairZX81

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81

ZX81 - Wikipedia

I made my previous boost (https://digipres.club/@discatte/116043061943724564) for purposes of causality violation… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Y-dpZ4Diw
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